TED 2008: Video highlights

Harvard’s Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong debuted a fascinating new Web technology at TED this year. It’s called the WorldWide Telescope and it will give you a whole new look at deep space, thanks to its creative use of satellite and telescope imagery.

Check it out:

Here’s another neat TED video link. A trailer for the upcoming, worldwide film event called Pangea Day. I’ll let the organizers explain it:

On May 10, 2008 — Pangea Day — sites in Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York City, Ramallah, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv will be videoconferenced live to produce a program of powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music.

The program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones